Biosphere to Lithosphere
new studies in vertebrate taphonomy
Published on 25. February 2005
176 pages
978-1-78297-917-3 (ISBN)
Description
Taphonomic studies are a major methodological advance, the effects of which have been felt throughout archaeology. Zooarchaeologists and archaeobotanists were the first to realise how vital it was to study the entire process of how food enters the archaeological record, and taphonomy brought to a close the era when the study of animal bones and plant remains from archaeological sites were regarded mainly as environmental indicators.This volume is indicative of recent developments in taphonomic studies: hugely diverse research areas are being explored, many of which would have been totally unforeseeable only a quarter of a century ago.
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Some taphonomic investigations on reindeer (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in West Greenland
- 2. Magnitude of faunal accumulations by carnivores and humans in the South American Andes
- 3. Anthropogenic versus non-anthropogenic bird bone assemblages: new criteria for their distinction
- 4. Owls, diurnal raptors and humans: signatures on avian bones
- 5. Predator bias and fluctuating prey populations
- 6. Taphonomic consequences of the use of bones as fuel. Experimental data and archaeological applications
- 7. Taphonomic influences on cremation burial deposits: implications for interpretation
- 8. Microfossils in Camelid dung: taphonomic considerations for the archaeological study of agriculture and pastoralism
- 9. Why ancient DNA research needs taphomony
- 10. Bone density variation between similar animals and density variation in early life: implications for future taphonomic analysis
- 11. Contribution to knowledge of the Pleistocene mammal-bearing deposits of the territory of Siracusa (southeastern Sicily)
- 12. Using comparative micromammal taphonomy to test palaeoecological hypotheses: 'Ubeidiya, a Lower Pleistocene site in the Jordan Valley, Israel, as a case study
- 13. Fragments of information: preliminary taphonomic results from the Middle Palaeolithic breccia layers of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel
- 14. Bone weathering and food procurement strategies: assessing the reliability of our behavioural inferences
- 15. Social changes in the early European Neolithic: a taphonomy perspective
